"Joe Petrow" <joepetrow@gmail.com> wrote:
| 
| Went into an Animate last night for the first time in years, and saw
| Tamura Yukari's picture plastered on the cover all of the seiyuu
| magazines.  Is there any reason for this?

She just released a new album (her 6th solo album).

http://www.usagi.org/doi/seiyuu/cd/tamura-yukari/izayoi-tsuki.html

| Ten years ago she was one of the last seiyuu I would have expected
| would still be an "idol" in 2008...

Horie Yui was on the covers of just about every magazine
the previous month for her 6th album.

http://www.usagi.org/doi/seiyuu/cd/yui/darling.html

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Hitoshi Doi
                          " this space for rent "
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